Sunday, November 23, 2014
LAME DUCK OR CRAZY DUCK?
In a recent column by Dr. Thomas Sowell, he says, "Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past." http://humanevents.com/2014/11/11/what-happened/
After he and his policies were clearly rejected in the mid-term election, he issued Congress an ultimatum, saying that if congress doesn't enact the kind of immigration law that he would like, he will bypass them and issue an executive order to change the nation's immigration laws. He then proceeded to do just that. That along with along with other remarks he has made since the election does not sound like a lame duck.
Obama plans to continue doing precisely what he promised during his 2008 presidential campaign, to "fundamentally change America". Obama is doing exactly that by subverting our Constitution and adopting the political style of a self appointed dictator.
He showed his willingness to ignore the Constitution when he eliminated the work requirement in welfare reform laws enacted during the Clinton administration. Obama has used executive orders to illegally change the law on several occasions. Obamacare is a good example; it was enacted by Congress and became the law of the land and he illegally made changes to that law without congressional approval. His amnesty order is the most recent example.
The Presidential Executive Order does NOT give the President the power to enact new laws, nor does it give him the power to CHANGE existing laws. It is suppose to be a tool to be used to enforce existing laws.
As Dr. Thomas Sowell said in his column, "people who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama's competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs."
The recent elections, which will give Republicans control of both houses of Congress, clearly indicate a repudiation of much of Obama's agenda. But, it is beginning to look as if the Republicans do not have the gonads to act on the power handed to them by “we the voters” and stop the president from running roughshod over the Constitution by impeachment. They have decided to sue him instead.
It is my understanding that this law suite is limited to his actions relating to “ObamaCare”. I posted a previous blog about it: http://cyberpolyticks.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-law-suite-against-obama-is.html
Because this law suite seems to be getting bipartisan support, it may be quicker and more effective than impeachment. At least as far as ObamaCare is concerned.
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Barack Obama was asked on Sunday about the precedent set by his unconstitutional royal edict in which he declared, using his magic pen, that five million criminal foreign invaders will now be made legal by his and his alone, declaration.
ReplyDeleteWhile the U.S. Constitution not only says that only Congress can make or change laws, and Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, gives Congress exclusive rights to establish uniform immigration rules, not the president, and despite the fact that Obama himself on multiple occasions, insisted that he had no legal authority to act on immigration without congressional approval, Barack Obama last week changed U.S. immigration laws, thoroughly abusing the power of his office.
ABC News Obama sycophant, George Stephanopoulos, who along with his fellow Obama worship team in the leftist media are largely responsible for creating the Obama dictatorship, asked Obama on Sunday whether he was concerned about a Republican president abusing the power of the presidency.
“How do you respond to the argument, a future president comes in and wants lower taxes?” Stephanopoulos, a former political adviser to Democrat Bill Clinton asked Obama, giving a hypothetical. “Doesn’t happen. Congress won’t do it. He says I’m not going to prosecute those who don’t pay capital gains taxes,” he posed to Obama as a question.
Obama, of course, puts himself above all future presidents, because, after all, only he has the unique authority to make and change laws, obliterating the other two branches of government, effectively flushing the U.S. Constitution down the toilet.
Apparently being a Hugo Chavez-style dictator is okay in Obama’s eyes, as long it’s not in regards to lowering Americans’ taxes. But throwing down the welcome mat to millions more of foreign invaders and therefore, Democrat voters, is perfectly acceptable, as long as it furthers Marxist Dictator Obama’s Cloward and Piven scheme to destroy America.
Maybe the next American dictator will use his “pen and phone” to abolish the criminal IRS or eliminate the tyrannical EPA or invent an “eraser” to squash regulations that unelected bureaucrats use to harass the American people.